@kathartik: No, I didn't skip over anything. They make sure that nobody outside the US can watch their videos because they're not authorized to play them to people outside the US. Any advertising issue is incidental.

@Wyatt Christopher Lewis: "If you look at quality apps, the ratio is probably pretty close between the two stores."

@kathartik: You blame Hulu for international distribution licenses?

@freeasabird: Yeah, the no Family Guy part is a plus.

@CoHPhasor: You're still missing the point. They made $1.8m in gross profit on the bumper? What is the profit margin on the iPhone itself? About $400? Hell, conservatively, let's say $300. That's $180 million at 600k units (actually closer to 1.7m, but who's counting). There's no percentage in designing a flaw like…

@CoHPhasor: It's naive to assume that a company wouldn't engineer a design flaw into their flagship product, which would (and did) get them bad press, so they could sell a cheap accessory that could be easily replicated by any third party accessory maker?

@CoHPhasor: It seems like a stretch to assume it was purposefully engineered into the (rather expensive) phone to sell a few rubber bands. Especially when you consider that this problem can be fixed by almost any third-party accessory, not just the bumper.

@JTBX: Seriously. I've been waiting for a Kotaku commenter to bag on CAD.

@Chris Pratt: What exactly do you mean by "console refresh"? The new Xbox is just a new Xbox 360 SKU. If you're holding it to that standard, the PS3 slim came out less than a year ago. I'm not sure why they'd change that again so soon.

@olternaut: How, exactly? I hate how that gets thrown out there as though it stands on its own.

@sudosudont: The offsides rule states that when you receive a pass, you need to have at least two opponents between you and the goal; in this case there were at least 3 when the ball was kicked in.

Good news: Now that Gary Coleman is out of the picture, they don't have to sink too much into preventing false positives.

Ugh. Why do free apps insist on making separate versions for the iPhone and iPad instead of just doing a Plus version? Pay versions I understand, but come on, iTunes is already a cluttered mess as is, give me a little bit of a break here.

I'm not trying to sound partisan, but the back end of this list looks as though it was being written with the intention of an Android win.

"they convey that violence can be used to solve conflicts"

@Insecur1tyGuard: Huh? Verizon didn't even have 3G when the first iPhone came out.

@stackstack: Maybe out in "the real world" a 60/40 split would mean something. But I don't think that the Evo (or Android in general) is suffering from a lack of product awareness within the Gizmodo readership.

@JPMarat: Yeah.

@OtaconR: Well, they would have bought the lifetime subs three years ago, so they've already saved money relative to the other options.

@xkevin108x: Unless, of course, you're one of the 98% of AT&T smartphone customers that uses less than 2GB/mo and are thus likely to save at least $5/mo.